“ Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. ”
- Charles Dudley Warner- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. ”
- Conrad Black- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”
- Paul Hawken- Copy
- 985
“ I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. ”
- Anthony Stewart Head- Copy
- 824
“ Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down… ”
- Martin E. P. Seligman- Copy
- 1K
“ The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.6K
“ To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. ”
- Karl von Bonstetten- Copy
- 2.5K
“ An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 1.4K
“ There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ”
- James Branch Cabell- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. ”
- S.J. Perelman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. ”
- Bruce Leverett- Copy
- 3.1K
“ In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 2.3K
“ If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 437
“ I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.6K
“ To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. ”
- Prophet Mohammad- Copy
- 227
“ The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether. ”
- Steve Martini- Copy
- 216
“ A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.3K
“ While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. ”
- Ian Hornak- Copy
- 3K
“ I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
- 1K
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